The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-09-03


and finally as she was about TO skeddadle
with her shekels was arrested by the police,
was tried, convicted of swindling and served |
her term OF two years in the Massachusetts, |
States Prison, and on her release opened |
another bank of exactly the same class and |
rapidly accumulating nearly hundred and
seventy thousand dollars fed with her
plumber, and to this day no man knoweth !
whittier. But TO return, Mrs. Broadhursl's |
furniture was seized and carried TO the auc-
tion room, and the mortgages turned up
thicker than the locusts of Egypt. Suits
and cross-suiis have been entered for the
property, and it now looks as If the present
generation would he dust and ashes and
their children children old and grey before
the legal owner Of the property is dscoy-
cred. Mrs. Broadhurst lost the money at
the races and is now in careful seclusion in
Canada. It is said she is fat broke, but in
view Of her splendid financial abilities let
us trust that it is only temporary incon-
yenience. The class of men she swindled
command very little sympathy, and those
who haye been robbed 10y the Shylocks re
gard her as a public benefactor.
A lively sensation was caused by the
Prrest of lawyer Dunn, who was said to be
the receiver of the stolen Doodle taken from
the Manhattan Bank by cashier Scott about
two years ago. Never was there more
starting Illustration of that memorable
adage: "The way of the transgressor is
hard" Scott was raised from boy in the
bank for twelve years he had passed
| through every grade with honor: he had
risen to be cashier, handling millions with
out the slightest suspicion of dishonesty,
only one step between him and the Presden-
cy of one of the oldest and most substantial
banks in the Republic, in which position
| he might hope TO close a long and honOr-
able life. lie did not drink or. smoke, he
could not tell the Jack of Hearts from the
Queen of Spades. Jack pots and horse
pools were unfaihomed mysteries to him.
| No faro, no louisiana Lottery, no moth
ing and yet he fell. This pious gentleman,
who would have been shocked at the idea
/
stole ten thousand dollars and put ii up on a
margin on widow. For two years he
covered up his tracks, suffering all the time
the tortures of the damned, and in the
height Of his supreme agony and despair he
says he fell in with Lawyer Dunn. Lawyer
Dunn he says heard his story and finding
his defalcation TO be ten thousand dollars
advised him to steal a million. This Mr..
Scott agreed to do, and did actually take il
out of the vaults of the bank when his
heart failed him aud he returned it all but
SiG0,oOO; with ten thousand he made a
dash for Canada, leaving $4,000 in the
care of Lawyer Dunn. scott sank to beg
gary in Europe, an outcast, thief and a
vagabond, and Dunn bagged the doodle,
alleging that he lost the money in wheat
deal and promising to commit suicide,
which promise like many others he made
he unfortunately forgot TO keep. Scott is
out of reach of our Courts, and it is not at
all certain that he would be prosecuted
even if he came back; but we haye Dunn
safe in Jail, and though they may not be
able TO sqneeze any cash ont of him, they
hope to sead him to prison for such long
term that when he gets out he will wish
that instead of piling Up Doodle here he
had made a small investment in that bank
where the moth doth not consume noI
thieves break in and steal.
a queer case has just come before the
Courts touching the estate of Sarah A.
Robbins, who inherited on the death OF
her father 100000. Though the possessoI
of an ample fortune and by no means uu-
colnely, she reached the age of twenty
seven without securing that inestimable
prize a husband. At last she fell ia with a
massage doctor named Johnson, and al
thong there was a standing mortgage ON DIR.
johnson of several years, she ran away
with the Doctor to Europe to the great
scandal of her family, and to the great
grief of the original Mrs. johnson. But
while Mrs. johnson wept salty tears she
did not propose 10 stop there, but swOrt
tfguralively of counsel that If ever she laid
hands on Sarah Robbins she'd warm heI
aud make her wish that a milestone were
tied about her neck and that she drowned
in the sea. Sarah wanted to come back "a
"E PiiTibuS UHuIn," and she could moi
give up her johnson. So there was onl,
one thing to do and that was to pay fol-
him, so she planked down 800, 900, good
hard, American dollars, and took the re
ceipt for johnson in full Miss Robbins /,
out a clean fifty thousand dollars, for
know an excellent man warranted s0nnC
physically and morally who can be got fol
fifty thousand. My modpsty forbids me Il
give his name but the offer is open for th,
next six weeks, for further particulars appl,
at this office. just think of IL, ladies, only
fifty thousand, a mere bag of nails. fo
such prize-don't all speak at once.
A few doors from Broadway on Warrer
Street is the palatial barroom of Theodor'
) Stewart filled with costly brio brac, rar'
] pictures, beautiful siatuary, enough Il
; start a respectable museum. The place OF
} Warren Street was AN oifslioot of his Othel
! magnificent barroom No. 4, o and s JohI
Street. MiStewart accumulated larg,
fortune in his business, and dying last weel
IN Saratoga bequeathed the bulk of his for
tune to his three barkeepers. There Nsr,
no more attractive saloons In New Yorl
than those Of the late Mr.. Stewart. He did